My old E-Class coupe. Now clocked and in Malaysia

[Gareth1974]

In June 2020 I took delivery of a brand new E-Class coupe. Lovely car and it was on a really cheap lease deal.
I returned it to Lex Autolease at the end of July 22 with 30926 miles on the clock.

For a few weeks after it went back, i tried to find it for sale, looking on here and on autotrader, curious to know how much it would go for, but I couldn’t see it for sale anywhere. I found that I was still connected to the car through the Mercedes Me app, which showed it in a compound near Watford.

Then I forgot about it until December when I got a notification from the car that its battery was critically low. Still connected to the app, still in the compound near Watford, which is thought was a strange thing to do with a depreciating asset with an ever reducing warranty period remaining.

[Gareth1974]

Last night I was talking to a friend who is considering getting a similar E-Class coupe, and it reminded me that I’d still got the Mercedes Me app. To my surprise I was still linked to the car. But it was no longer in Watford, now it’s on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
And it’s, been clocked, the mileage has halved.

A little Googling found it at a Malaysian car dealer, matching its location.

https://www.carlist.my/recon-cars/int-brown-4cam-2...

Presume it ended up being sold at auction and exported. Wonder at which end it was clocked?

[Jhonno]

Mad for such a new car!

[sdh2903]

Up for £64k. No wonder it was exported

[MDMA .]

The dash shows the mileage as 23254 m/km on the 4th December 2022 and it being 34 degrees centigrade outside, so presume Malaysia?
Not sure how it’s got over there on the 4th December if it was in Watford at the start of December?

Edited by MDMA . on Friday 3rd February 15:54

[Gareth1974]

Looking at the notification it was at the end of November

[_Rodders_]

I imagine that's way more common than we think.

There must be fortunes to be made buying high mileage 3 year old cars, exporting and then slashing the mileage.

[tvrfan007]

Up for a lot because mayalsia has ridiculous car import taxes...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_motor_ve...